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From: "Kate Foote" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] iti - Norway commercial
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 19:52:08 -0600
In-Reply-To: <000701c83477$1f740970$0201a8c0@YOUR58BA15CF1B>


And here's the rest of the story.....

The following year Lars and his papa Ole decided to go to the Old Country by
airplane. When they got to the airport there were three lines: one was for
regular travelers and it was very, very long; the second was for folks who
had "not" been "profiled" but were told they had to go though extra security
anyway. When the ticket agent checked Lars' and Ole's tickets she directed
them to the third line, which was labeled "Norway Only", and had no
searchers and no waiting!

Once on board they asked the flight attendant why their line was so short
and so quick? She replied that if they had to ask they must be Norwegian,
and continued with her duties. So Lars and Ole were happy all the way to
Oslo. When they finally set foot on the homeland they were surrounded by
people saying "Velkomen!" So Lars said to his papa, "Ve better talk dis vay
so ve are not lookin' like tourists, and don't get robbed."

For three days Lars and Ole took in the sights. They explored the fjords,
went on reindeer rides, and each bought a new metal hat with horns on the
side. They choked down lutefisk and made sandwiches out of lefse. They
absorbed some of the culture and learned the history of the 14 Day War,
which was fought against Sweden in 1814 and was the reason why, to this day,
the worst thing you could say to a person was to call him a Swede.

On the fourth day they went to the Hall of Records to study their family
history. They were directed to the desk of Lena the Librarian (a very
ancient woman) who was the most famous genealogist in the country (however,
not a member of APG.) Lars said, "Ve are Ole and Lars Torkelson, father and
son from Amerika, and ve vant to trace our roots." Lena first looked at
Lars and then looked at Ole. She said to Ole, "Vel, who vas your papa?"
Ole, who preferred to let Lars to the talking, became nervous and turned red
in the face, "Uff-da!", he said, "He vas alvays gone ven da census taker
come so he vasn't around much ven I vas growin' up. All I know about my papa
vas dat he had very red hair and mamma called him Erik."

Lena the Librarian gasped, she saw the resemblance and knew this was the son
of the very Erik Torkelson who had left her at the Alter nearly sixty years
ago. Infuriated Lena stood up from her desk and said, "Erik the red headed
Torkelson? Dat damn Svede?!"

So Lars and Ole left to expand their research in Sweden....


Kate - Good day!





> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of
> Richard A. Pence
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 6:06 PM
> To: Craig Scott;
> Subject: Re: [APG] iti - Norway commercial
>
> Craig and All:
>
> I guess it was intended to be some sort of a Norwegian joke. But as I told
> my wife just Friday, the ad agency wasn't all that skilled in genealogy -
> you can't go to the "hall of records" in Norway and find out you are
Swedish
> (although you may be able to do the reverse - I'm not sure).
>
> Anyway, the ad has it all wrong. Here's what really happened.
>
> When Lars and his father Ole went on the genealogy cruise to the Old
> Country, they got on the ship at Dulut'. As soon as they got on board they
> were clamped into irons and forced to man oars to the beat measured by a
> huge man with a loud whip.
>
> They barely got out of Lake Superior when the trip was half over, so they
> had to turn around and row back. As they neared Dulut' again, Lars leaned
> briefly on his oar and said to Ole, "Say, Ole, are we supposed to tip the
> whip master?"
>
> Ole replied, "I don't know, but we didn't last year."
>
> Uff-dah.
>
> Richard
> Whose maternal grandmother was Oleanna Iverson, so he has a license to
tell
> Norwegian jokes
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Scott" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:40 PM
> Subject: [APG] iti - Norway commercial
>
>
> > Not having a known drop of Scandinavian blood, except in how it ended up
> > in
> > the British Isles, the first thing I thought when I saw it (I have now
> > seen
> > it about 20 times) was that it was cute.
> >
> > Then I got to thinking. How did they determine in the archive that they
> > weren't from there?
> >
> > Now, my surname, Le Scot, means "not from here." Which might explain why
> > there are so many Scotts not from Scotland.
> >
> > It was just an experience outside of the realm of my experience. Go to
an
> > archive and be told you are in the wrong country?????
> >
> > Okay, so it was a commercial. But aren't commercials, like newspapers,
> > primary sources?????
> >
> > C.
> >
> > Craig R. Scott, CG
> > President and CEO
> > Heritage Books, Inc.
> > 65 East Main Street
> > Westminster, MD 21157
> > 800 876-6103
> >
> >
> > 2758 books in print and growing. Visit www.HeritageBooks.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [mailto:] On
Behalf
> > Of Alvie L. Davidson CG
> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 4:32 PM
> > To: 'Katherine Flynn'; 'Debbie Parker Wayne';
> > Subject: Re: [APG] Samford University's IGHR Registration is now open!
> >
> > I saw that on a commercial several times and still get a kick out of it.
> > Certainly did not do his homework before traveling across the pond !
> >
> > Alvie L. Davidson CG
> >
> > Lakeland, Florida
> >
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